Expression//Reaction//ScienceProjects

11/03/2012

The Saturday Morning Block Report (Washington Heights)

This morning I went outside to enjoy the sun, but my side of the block was already dark.
Unable to change the trajectory of the sun, I walked to the other side of the street.
Here the view was better, and helped me to forget what I had missed.

'It’s to the credit of Matthew Gallaway’s enchanting, often funny first novel that it doesn’t require a corresponding degree of obsession from readers, but may leave them similarly transported: the book is so well written — there’s hardly a lazy sentence here — and filled with such memorable lead and supporting players that it quickly absorbs you into its worlds.